Legislation authored by Joseph Francis Nichols
Includes legislation with Joseph Francis Nichols as the primary author for the 32nd through 35th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
Please note author information is not complete for the 43rd through 45th Legislatures or for sessions prior to the 30th.
| 35th Regular Session | |
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| HB 57 | Caption: Relating to amending special road law for Hunt county. |
| HB 89 | Caption: Relating to authorizing any interurban railway company to lease its tracks and railroad to another company for the purpose of transportation and delivery of freight, prescribing conditions and terms for such lease contracts, requiring that they be supervised by the Railroad Commission. |
| HB 168 | Caption: Relating to making it an offense for tenants to misuse property subject to landlord's liens. |
| HB 202 | Caption: Relating to the articles or service that may be sold and the services rendered on Sunday; providing penalties. |
| HB 203 | Caption: Relating to the investment by insurance companies in 'Texas securities.' |
| HB 246 | Caption: Relating to prorating the appropriation for Confederate pensions among the pensioners. |
| HB 262 | Caption: Relating to the application for transferring of school districts. |
| HB 384 | Caption: Relating to granting the Railroad Commission power to require separation of grades at certain railroad crossings. |
| HB 445 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the appointment of a committee to conduct an investigation and make a compilation and rearrangement of the general and criminal statutes of this State. |
| HB 446 | Caption: Relating to providing for the collection of taxes due by insurance companies doing business in this state without a charter. |
| HB 475 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the purchase of and making appropriations for the East Texas Normal College located at Commerce in Hunt county. |
| HB 587 | Caption: Relating to preventing the manufacture and sale of certain beverages. |
| HB 635 | Caption: Relating to providing for the collection of data relating to the lives and achievements of the industrial pioneers and leaders of Texas; making an appropriation. |
| HJR 1 | Caption: Proposing an amendment prohibiting the manufacture, sale, barter, exchange for transportation within this State of intoxicating liquors except for specified purposes. |
| HJR 18 | Caption: Proposing an amendment relating to the mileage and per diem of members of the Legislature and legislative procedure. |
| HJR 38 | Caption: Proposing an amendment relating to the sale, etc., of intoxicating liquors. |
| HR 129 | Caption: Providing certain information for the members of the investigating committee. |
| 35th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 74 | Caption: Relating to providing for the annual salary of the Adjutant General. |
| HR 17 | Caption: Relating to the valor of a Texan at the battle of Vimy Ridge. |
| 34th Regular Session | |
| HB 16 | Caption: Relating amending Article 150, Chapter 6, Title 4 of the Penal Code regulating the advertising of intoxicating liquors in prohibition territory. |
| HB 17 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act including in the definition of "Texas Securities", "road district bonds", and inserting in lieu of "other municipality or subdivision which is now or may hereafter be constituted" the following; "other municipality or other subdivision, of a county or of the State which is now or may hereafter be constituted". |
| HB 18 | Caption: Relating to regulating the transportation or delivery of intoxicating liquors in this state, to or for the purchaser or owner thereof, or any person for such purchaser or owner in local option districts or territory; providing for a state, county, city or town, occupation tax to be paid by all persons, firms, corporations, or association of persons engaged in such business; and fixing a penalty. |
| HB 30 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws to permit certain cities to allow conduct of places of amusement on Sundays. |
| HB 31 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Penal Code making it a felony for any person, with intent to defraud the holder of the lien or mortgage, to sell, to remove out of the State or otherwise dispose of any personal or movable property, growing crop or farm product, or any part thereof on which there exists a lien or mortgage; fixing a penalty. |
| HB 32 | Caption: Relating to making fraudulent advertising a penal offense; prescribing a penalty. |
| HB 33 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code to provide that any person as tenant, lessee, superintendent or person in charge of farm lands who shall embezzle or fraudulently misapply any money belonging to the landlord after the sale of said crop or farm product to be guilty of a penal offense; providing a penalty. |
| HB 34 | Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure providing for the publication of a notice in the county where a crime was committed of all pleas or desire to remit any fine or forfeiture or to grant commutation of punishment or pardon in the case before the governor acts thereupon. |
| HB 50 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relating to the selling of tobacco to minors. |
| HB 198 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles so as to include road district and drainage bonds as "Texas Securities." |
| HB 219 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws so as to declare void all contracts of foreign corporations that have not yet obtained permits to do business in the State. |
| HB 288 | Caption: Relating to amending the special road law of Hunt County so as to authorize the Commissioner's Court to sell bonds issued thereunder for less than par. |
| HB 297 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the purchase of supplies for State institutions. |
| HB 329 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws so as to provide that, upon the dissolution of the marriage relation by death, that the surviving spouse shall be entitled to all the personal property of the Community Estate and to one half of the lands thereof. |
| HB 378 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws to add the duty of Railway Companies to confine all Bermuda grass to their rights of way; providing a penalty. |
| HB 388 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing for a standing committee of Committee on Committees, providing for its membership, organization and prescribing its duties and authority. |
| HB 468 | Caption: Relating to exempting Hunt county from provisions of the Fish, Oyster and Game Laws. |
| HJR 25 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that certain bonds conforming with certain requirements shall be guaranteed by the State; making an appropriation. |
| 34th 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 4 | Caption: Granting Judge William Pierson a leave of absence from the State. |
| 32nd Regular Session | |
| HB 15 | Caption: Relating to preventing the procreation of children by persons afflicted with certain diseases or infirmities; providing penalties. |
| HB 55 | Caption: Relating to providing that the owners, lessees, operators or receivers of all cotton gins shall write or stamp with indelible ink upon all bales of cotton ginned the word "tare" and the weight of the bagging and ties ;providing penalties. |
| HB 58 | Caption: Relating to establishing and maintaining an Agricultural, Mechanical and Industrial College of secondary grade in the city of Greenville, Hunt County. |
| HB 207 | Caption: Relating to increasing the authority and duties of the Commissioners Court of Hunt County, Texas, and of the county commissioners of said county; to require said commissioners to devote their entire time to the affairs of said county. |
| HB 213 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting students from going in any place where spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or medicated bitter capable of producing intoxication are sold; to prohibit such student partaking of such.liquors; providing penalties. |
| HB 250 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting turkeys and geese from running at large in certain seasons of the year. |
| HB 264 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act relating to Lunatic Asylums. |
| HB 265 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act relating to "Scholastic Census". |
| HB 317 | Caption: Relating to amending the city charter of the city of Greenville. |
| HB 386 | Caption: Relating to providing for the exemption of Hunt County from the provisions of the County Auditor's Act. |
| HB 518 | Caption: Relating to insuring fair elections, providing for appointment of additional judges, clerks and supervisors for elections at which a constitutional amendment or any question or proposition is voted upon, for the filing of reports of such supervisor and providing for the contesting of such elections; providing penalties. |
| HB 532 | Caption: Relating to the levy and collection of an occupation tax from persons, firms, companies or association of persons dealing in sewing machines. |
| HB 539 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act creating a special road system for Hunt county, Texas. |
| HB 583 | Caption: Relating to reorganizing the Fortieth Judicial District and the Sixty-second Judicial District; to transfer Rockwall County from the Fortieth District to the Sixty-second District. |
| HJR 21 | Caption: Relating to the "Legislative Department," of the Constitution of the State of Texas; fixing the time for the election, directing the proclamation therefor. |